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If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?

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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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Born Death Difference Life
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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Apperance Blind Easy Kind
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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End Live Marriage
For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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Discipline Law Willing
Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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Nature Soul Teaching
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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Believe Death God Impossible Mad

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